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DENIM DAYS

Denim Days (2:56) • Remember way before the babies made our “always” turn to “maybe”s and our “maybe”s turn to “sorry we just can’t”s? • We were running strong each weekend, never weakening the frequency of freedom we were leaving up to chance • We were all evolving, self-involved, and didn't cotton to revolving 'round the rotten crowds of other ones • And we were stars in our own eyes like diamonds stud the denim skies so we'd befriend, defend and mend together • We may fade forever, but those denim days were never any better • When the ends were frayed we tied up all that mattered in life • Well, I knew at our reunion there'd be some that we outgrew and even fewer who would test our memories • But we are woven through each other's lives from times of tightened pockets to a lot that make us go weak in the knees • And through thick and thin imperfect-fitting maturation rivets seemed to hip me to what joined us at the seams • And all indigo indignation fades to true blue saturation • We may fade forever, but those denim days were never any better • When the ends were frayed we tied up all that mattered in life • We may fade forever, but those denim days were never better and friends like we are dyed into the tatters of life • Denim days will last forever, denim days were never better, denim days are treasures in this life • We may fade forever, but those denim days are never any better • When the ends are frayed we tied up all that mattered in life • Music: Jordan Summers. Lyrics: Morty Coyle.

Quality Problems (3:22) • Poor little me, I've got a rich man's disease • I can choose anyone I please any time • Got love for free in warehouse-size quantities • Sometimes it's so hard to be-ware of saving for a rainy day when... • There has never been a better time than right now • Hang around with your whole life wasting, just amateur procrastinating • There's never been a better time than right now • Why don't we hurry up and wait • Love lets us lead a better life chemically, whether olfactory or academically • When you met me I bet you would forget me • How wrong I turned out to be, now we're getting down to rewriting our history • There has never been a better time than right now • Memories of a reckless childhood clear the wreckage 'til we've got clean records • There's never been a better time than right now • Why don't we hurry up and wait • These quality problems, so glad we both got 'em • Never been a better time than right now • You don’t die of an underdose of the good stuff ’til it’s gone in a Puff • There's never been a better time than right now • Why don't we hurry up and… • I can’t wait for a better time than right now • Love’s a drug in my driest moments, now I know what “Just Say No” meant • There’s never been a better time than right now • Why don’t we hurry up and wait • Music: Jordan Summers and Morty Coyle. Lyrics: Morty Coyle.

The Single (4:02) • I know it's crazy, but I'm frightened by the ringing of the telephone • Telling me the world outside is overflowing • Hello, I must be going, to snap into action • The brightest lights, the tightest beats, the latest nightbirds blowing up my phone • These kids today don't know from dials or dial tones... or growing old alone • It's just something that happened • Though I thought I heard it all, I think I hear the single crying out that no one understands • Even though I know we all must some day be the single, doesn't make it easier when I am • And I am • I know it's funny when the bed you wake in's not your natural habitat • But it's not funny: “ha ha”, it’s just funny: “sad” • They don't laugh with but at... and nobody's laughing now • Though I thought I heard it all, I think I hear the single crying out that no one understands • Even though I know we all must some day be the single, doesn't make it easier when I am • My dignity is signified by my belief that finding grace in my relief will satisfy my desire • Though I thought I heard it all, I think I hear the single crying out that no one understands • Even though I know we all must some day be the single, doesn't make it easier when I am • Though I thought I heard it all, I still can hear the single crying out that no one understands • Even though I know we all must some day be the single, doesn't make it easier now I am • I know it’s crazy, but I’m frightened by the ringing of the telephone • Music: Jordan Summers and David Goodstein. Lyrics: Morty Coyle.

The Girl with the Denim Eyes (3:20) • I would be scared, I would be terrified if I couldn't be near the girl with the denim eyes • I'll remember all my life the first time I set eyes on you • You answered a prayer • You were serenity • I surrendered any hope of ever giving up on you • You had me right where I never knew I could be • I would be scared, I would be terrified • We won't always get along as friends so often never do, but nothing can bend the bond I have forged with you • Fortune is a smile a day of pure redemptive love my way • When words bring me down I rise on a bouncy tune • I would be scared, I would be terrified if I couldn't be near the girl with the denim eyes • I would be scared, and it would be justified if I couldn't be near the girl with the denim eyes • You won't always have that face, but you'll always have those eyes • I knew them when they were hidden inside • Open or closed depends, nothing's indefinite • You got my genes but she gave you everything • I would be scared, I would be terrified if I couldn't be near the girl with the denim eyes • I wouldn't dare, I wouldn't stare if I knew that I'd be near the girl with the denim eyes • Music: Jordan Summers. Lyrics: Morty Coyle.

Listening to the Liars (4:27) • This is how they lure you in, this false sense of security • They hook you with their sentiment 'til the fantasy is over • They told me it'll be alright, they tuned me up and turned me on • Was beaten but I couldn't stop the ringing in my heart • I've been listening to the liars but I guess that's how I got by • I'd been wishing the love songs could be mine • Those liars with their pretty lines, the kind of love you can't live down • They soundtracked my attractions from first kiss through make out • I fell in while I sang along, the melody filling my lungs • It drowned me in a sea of love from downbeat to fadeout • I've been listening to the liars but I guess that's how I got by • I'd been wishing the love songs could be mine • I've been listening to the liars singing how their pain was like mine • I felt fortunate I identified • I'd thought it couldn't be like they said that it could be • Magic moments just can't be defined • But it's exactly like they said that it would be • Eyes light up and all the stars align • It's getting nearly to the end, this is where we say goodbye • We gave all of our love to you hook, line and Sucker • You've been listening to the liars but I guess that's how you'll get by • We've been giving you all that we've acquired • We've been listening to the liars and I guess that's how we got by • So liars keep singing the lies, keep singing the lies • Music: Jordan Summers. Lyrics: Morty Coyle.

Faded (4:01) • Turned off the radio ‘cause there was nothing playing • Just the songs of love that did define a love divine that's now not mine • I heard a song we knew when we were so familiar • Now the words are foreign on my tongue and the tune is barely similar • There's no one to blame when your life gets frayed and faded • There’s nowhere to go, nothing to see • There’s no way to know what will ever be • There's no one to blame when your life gets frayed and faded • How’d the world you were born to fit in get you so worn out? • Worn out and faded • Turned off the telephone ‘cause there was no one calling • And the calls I made went unreturned or maybe weren't received at all • When I'd hear your voice, repeat your cheerful greeting • I would tear up with experience of choices I'm still hung up on • There's no one above when your love gets frayed and faded • There’s nowhere to go, nothing to see • There’s no way to know what will ever be • There's no one above when your love gets frayed and faded • How’d the world you were born to fit in get you so worn out? • Worn out and faded • I turned off all the lights • Immersed in total darkness • While obsessing on my absent friend, the outsides finally match what’s in • You're only to blame when your life gets frayed and faded • There’s nowhere to go, nothing to see • There’s no way to know what will ever be • You're only to blame when your life gets frayed and faded • How’d the world you were born to fit in get you so worn out? • There's no way you can ever fit in now that you're worn out • Worn out and faded • Music: Jordan Summers and Morty Coyle. Lyrics: Morty Coyle.

No Hard Feelings (3:28) • Winter withered into spring and I resented everything • I'm not much sprung on seasons • I met her then and it began, but I'm the heavy weather man • I blew her off for awful reasons • But when the wind had winded down we ended up on common ground, she showed me possibilities • As springtime stumbled into summer, I tumbled in love with her and her soft philosophies • Ain't it funny how the time goes by? • Never seem to acclimatize • Fall, winter, spring to summarize: feels like a minute between the blinking of a baby's eyes to the breathing of an old man's sighs • She taught me to enjoy the ride while I’m here in it • Had to learn to live with no hard feelings • Had to put another's heart before my own • Got to take the bitterness to taste the sweetness • Ain't it funny how the time goes by • Summer melted into fall and I felt like we had it all, watching time together • Autumn mellowed into winter and I completely into her • I never will forget her • Ain't it funny how the time goes by • And you hardly get a chance to sigh • Then the second you forget to cry grows to a minute • And the minutes tend to multiply, ’til you're adding up a happy life • And the gratitude you get to find • Stay in it • Had to learn to live with no hard feelings • Had to put another's heart before my own • Got to take the bitterness to taste the sweetness • Ain't it funny how the time goes by • Music: Dan Rothchild, Jordan Summers and Morty Coyle. Lyrics: Morty Coyle and Dan Rothchild.

More of You (3:27) • I know what you're thinking • I know what I thought • I didn't want to have one as much as I didn't want to not • I know the clock is ticking and there's no time for talk • When I felt the kicking the race was on but I walked • But if there's something more that I can do • To make me more of you • Then I know I have to try • Or he wouldn't have your face • And he wouldn't have your eyes • And I wouldn't think of you every time I see him smile • Some snap into action • Some just flat refuse • But in the end they're all the same because they are forced to choose, which is when you win or lose • A silly love song would've been just that, like a rhyme with violet’s hue • If I plagiarized a page on your eyes it would still be true but it really wouldn't do • But if there's something more that I can do • To make me more of you • Then I know I have to try • Or he wouldn't have your face • And he wouldn't have your eyes • And he wouldn't know my name • And he wouldn't be our child • Second thoughts, they were the first thing that came to my mind • My foresight needed glasses and a kick in the behind • I love all the parts of him and who he'll turn into • But most of all I love the part that gave me more of you • If there's something more that I can do... • Or he wouldn't have your face • And he wouldn't be so wise • And I wouldn't think of you • And he wouldn't have his mother's eyes • Music and Lyrics: Jordan Summers.

Sweet Surprise (3:31) • You tear out my heart with every little thing you do • And I take pride, I couldn't bear not letting you • You showed me life in ways I never knew before • And if you were my own I couldn't love you more • Sweet surprise is what you were and what you opened up in me • Sweet surprise, in you I saw the life I never thought I'd see • You can be a handful and life can be a hassle but it's nothing we can't handle when we're building a sand castle together • I was shadowed in doubt, I thought my light was getting dim • Life was losing luster while the dark was setting in • Then you came along like a long-lost little spark, went charging in • I was growing old without, now i'm glowing from within • Sweet surprise is what you were and what you opened up in me • Sweet surprise, in you I saw the light I never thought I'd see • You can be a wild thing and life can be a forest but it's nothing we can't cultivate to build a tree house for us, together • You can be a singer and life can be a song but I'm content to just lay back and clap my hands along • And when you reach the age when I must let you walk away, I hope to hold your hand for one more time that day • Sweet surprise is what you were and what you opened up in me • Sweet surprise, in you I saw the life I always hoped I'd see • Sweet surprise, and every day you keep continuing to be a sweet surprise • You made a papa out of me • Music: Morty Coyle, Jordan Summers and Dan Rothchild. Lyrics: Morty Coyle.

Crossword Puzzle (4:41) • Gentle breezes, heaven's on its way • It's all that we needed • Sentimental feelings gone astray but we've got each other • Enemies of state of minds at play but we know what matters • We don't need no penthouse apartment • We don't need no gentleman butler • We don't need no limousine driver • All we need is each other and a crossword puzzle on a Sunday (pull the covers on the world) • Crossword puzzle on a Sunday • Life is gonna fill you all in, time is gonna find you long gone, but love is gonna get you through it all • Days are numbered, life's a grid we're on • Let's live to the letter • We can come across or crashing down • By Monday it's better • Words of wisdom curb the dumbing down so curtain the window • We don't need no uncontrolled substance • We don't need no notes from our mothers • We don't need no pressurized contents • We're content with each other and a crossword puzzle on a Sunday (pull the covers on the world) • Crossword puzzle on a Sunday • Life is gonna fill you all in, time is gonna find you long gone but love is gonna get you through it all • We cursed the cruciverbalist for mercy from our actions • And fortified our fortresses' last bastion with our passions • We don't need no squares in our circle • We don't need no clues to discover • We don't need no darkened block party • We've got more with each other than a crossword puzzle on a Sunday (pull the covers on the world) • Crossword puzzle on a Sunday • Life is gonna fill you all in, time is gonna find you long gone, but love is gonna get you through it all • Music: Jay Gore and Morty Coyle. Lyrics: Morty Coyle.

One Long Day (3:36) • First things first, we rise and fall • The sun doesn't do a single thing at all but hang out, holding down the universe • The furnace firmly at the center, sending heat and light to all its renters who in turn both praise and curse its birth • There's no shortage of abundant hope, all ye who enter • Just a mortgage note with your lifetime to pay your loan alone for one long day • One long day's enough to last a lifetime • And one lifetime's roughly rounded down to one long day • Now my plan's to have as many mini-misadventures as I can, I'd like to think that that's every man's plan • Before that R.T.D. that's out to get you and me hypothetically ventures its way across the median • I pledge allegiance to comedians who stand up to liberate the public's state, adjust us, all invertebrates for one long day • One long day of shucking and gyrating, stuck in gravity, brevity and haste • All the world's five stages in one play date • I'm reminded when I'm wide awake • We're delivered then sent on our way • 'Til then, time is on our backs for one long day • Something in the seething vortex of my cerebral cortex exists that seems to help me correlate • And put perspective into context, how my nervous wrecks, rubber checks and unprotected sex hasn't sealed my fate • Life seems easier broken up in bite-size pieces • To reach some peace and cease this sleepless one long night of the one long day • Once around the sun again, one long day until the end • All of us are equally created for the future all of us create • Here's the feature, no second acts or sequels • So get your credits in order for one long day • Once around the sun again, one long day until the end • Music: Jordan Summers and Dan Rothchild. Lyrics: Morty Coyle.

The Big pretend

The Big Pretend (1:51) Who ever said that life is short was wrong 'cause when your love's lost it never seems longer. • From the Cedars of Lebanon to the green Forest Lawn I will wander. • Somebody nowhere needs a sign but they'll settle for a song. • The Big Pretend • Where the seasons change in flash floods and fires • The Big Pretend • Where respect's a speck in the public ire • The Big Pretend • Where one man's reject is another's object of desire • Here, in The Big Pretend • We're, in The Big Pretend • Here, in The Big Pretend.

Life in the Passing Lane (3:33) • Running away with emotion, running after a dream • They resemble the same slow motion when you're stuck in between. • Lock in to the distance and jockey for position. • You gotta face the rules • Fixate on the winning and waste it on the living. • It's just a race of fools. • Come on, You gotta make it • You gotta make it • You gotta make it through (repeat) • Getting away with murder or going along for the ride • You know a bit of that system shocks you no further than a chalk finishing line. • Living by the sword and dying by the side of the road I know I'll never find • The safe shade of the grave and the sun's sweet rays at the same time • You wanna pass them, pass them all • Keep on rushing to the red lights • You wanna pass them, pass them all • You're outta sight • Come on, You gotta make it • You gotta make it • You gotta make it through • It's your life to live, it’s your life to give, it’s your life to lose • Come on, You gotta make it • You gotta make it • You wanna pass them, pass them all • Keep on rushing to the red lights • You wanna pass them, pass them all • Come on, You gotta make it •You gotta make it • You gotta make it through (repeat) • It's your life to live, it's your life to give, it's your life to lose • Come on, You gotta make it • You gotta make it, make it, make it, Yeah • Come on, You're gonna make it •

• Santa Ana (3:46) • How can anybody get along these days? • With everybody blowing their own separate ways? • We have so much in common not the least our pride. • That's why you're crying while I'm on the other side. • Now in this house of love we've got an open sore • Forced communication through the bathroom door. • I beg for your forgiveness from the hallway floor • And pray for intervention from my very core. • Santa Ana, Come blow down the wall between us. • Santa Ana, Come blow down the wall between us. • This ill wind's infected with uncertainty • It's silent as a cancer, violent as a sneeze, • It's charm less as a hiccup, harmless as a wheeze • And every little breeze seems to whisper disease. • Santa Ana, Come blow down the wall between us. • Santa Ana, Come blow down the wall between us. • Climb down from your mountaintop to bring us hope. • Come blow down the wall between us. • Santa Ana, Come blow down the wall between us. • Every closing door increases distance • And leaves us both behind. • That's why I'm pleading for divine assistance • From the patron saint of wind resistance. • Santa Ana, Come blow down the wall between us. • Santa Ana, Why won't you come blow down the wall between us? • Climb down from your mountaintop and end this war. • Come blow down the wall between us. • Won't you wind down through your canyons to my baby's door. • Come blow down the wall between us. • Santa Ana, Come on, come on and quit your big pretending • Santa Ana • I can't stop begging 'cause our love's ending.

The Picture (That Took Me) (3:26) There's a picture somewhere of two people in love • And they're doing all the things people do when • they're together. • Now it's hidden in a drawer with the odd paraphernalia • And I fetch it every time that I feel I probably failed you. • I don't want to be in your memory. • I want to be in your arms. • I don't want to be where you used to be. • I want to be where you are. • I was so sure I was right. • Oh yeah, I'm the big pretender. • Resignation in my eyes • while my smile said, "Love me tender". • Now I stay up all night 'til my short sight is dilated. • Just a picture and I…Love you so much that I hate it. • I don't want to be in your memory. • I want to be in your arms. • I don't want to be where you used to be • I want to be where you are. (repeat) • Yeah, we really had something • Yeah, we really had something good • Yeah, and something good is hard to find • Yeah I really lost something • Yeah, I know I really lost something good • Yeah, and all I've got is this reminder • Yeah yeah yeah • Now you're doing all the things people do when they’re together • And there's a picture somewhere • But it's turned down on a nightstand (one night stand) • I don't want to be in your memory. • I want to be in your arms. • I don't want to be where you used to be. • I want to be where you are. (repeat)

Nobody Somewhere (3:59) She's sitting at a stoplight waiting. • She's tapping on her dashboard, contemplating gridlock. • The green lights don't mean anything here. • L.A. has never seen a shortage • Of imported protégées to sort, order and trade on. • A freeway to subordination. • Somebody's always the toast of a small town. • You show up with dreams that burn down when it turns out • You're nobody somewhere. • Yeah, you're nobody somewhere. • She's sitting at an empty table • Abandoned by the major labels and attendants. • She drinks their flat champagne with her friends. • Last call and now the panic sets in. • Which after-party will they get in all depends on • Defending that campaign for a friend or a friend of a friend. • Fame is a rain cloud you follow around • But the raindrops all dry up when they touch the ground • When you're nobody somewhere. • Yeah, you're nobody somewhere. • You know 'em just barely but name-drop 'em all • And I'll bet that they rarely pick up when you call • When you're nobody somewhere. • Yeah, you're nobody somewhere. • They say the neon lights are brighter there. • They say there's always music in the air • But they don't care if static's playing on the radio. • 'Cause even the back of a packed display case • Is attractive to somebody nobody knows. • So welcome to somewhere, where fame is eroding • The borders and our population's exploding. • You're nobody somewhere. • Yeah, you're nobody somewhere...and nobody • knows. • Nobody somewhere. Nobody knows. (repeat)

Land of Canyons* (3:28) Sometimes I feel like my life is a dark and longing canyon • Spanning 'cross my time from companion to companion. • Driving late at night feeling stranded and abandoned • I gaze out into space for a race of understanding • There's no native son protection keeping me around • Natural selection skipped this California town • I'm driving over Laurel Canyon • Moon shining down on Crescent Heights • I'm driving over Laurel Canyon • Wishing on every star in the night • Looking for signs of life • Got me a couple of friends when I'm not straining their patience. • My public relations have ill maintained acquaintance. • All my so-called friends have a So Cal understanding: • They don't so call me and so I don't so call them. • Waiting for a spaceship to escape this foreign reign • Facets of these friendships forged along the diamond lane • I'm driving down Topanga Canyon • I'm chasing after trailing lights • I'm driving down Topanga Canyon • Leaving the city of angles behind • Looking for signs of life • I'm the native waiting when the aliens arrive • Waving when the flying objects are identified • I'm living in a land of canyons • Been standing on this beach all night • I'm living in a land of canyons • Looking for something out in the night • Looking for something missing inside • Looking to leave this city behind • Looking for signs of life

Strange Orbits (5:30) Used to be we had it all, inseparable. • We traveled everywhere together • But now that we have grown apart • we've been blown apart • Unraveling, we're less than stellar. • But there's a bitter path to break the pattern • Better a tragic void than trajectories we can avoid. • Now, we're traveling in these strange orbits • Looking for the space when it's really gonna take some time • Now, traveling in these strange orbits • Comfort from colliding comes with a dividing line. • I can't believe your halo glow that filled my room • Could leave me so hollow, doomed and empty. • And every time I turn to go before you see • Or be burned up upon re-entry. • All the old routines, you know I miss them • Alone on our solo missions • Through this lonely solar system. • Now, we're traveling in these strange orbits • Making science fiction of friction and dishonesty. • Now, traveling in these strange orbits • We're taken for a ride on this saddest, oddest, odyssey. • Love, I've got no interest in its origin. I've seen how it begins and I know how it ends. • Love has its stages that we must transcend: The Big Crush, the Big Bang, the Big Drift, the Big • Pretend. • A change of heart's charted course can never cross the border • Because the universe restores a natural restraining order. • Now, traveling in these strange orbits • My universe collapses or maybe it's just yours expanding • Now, traveling in these strange orbits • There’s no looking back trying to find a brave, new understanding

Beverly Park (3:50) Nothing in this world will last forever • And soon you'll reminisce, "Where are they now?" • And any dream that lives past adolescence • Man's preplanned obsolescence won’t allow. • Can you imagine living in L.A. then? • With a kiddie park right there in our backyard? • From La Cienega to San Vicente • Was heaven on Beverly Boulevard. • Oh, I still get misty when the memories jog or maybe it's the smog. • The latchkey kingdom kids frozen in photographic history • On the trains and ponies at Beverly Park • What a time to be a teen romancing • Amusement parks make such bemusing dates. • With Watergate and Vietnam and Manson •The bad news barely made it through the gate. • Well, it might've only been a rundown fair ground • With flea bit ponies and some rotten rides • Where cotton candy flowed like Polyester • And so do all my yesterdays just like the scarecrow and the train collide. • Oh, I still get misty when the memories jog or maybe it's the smog. • The latchkey kingdom kids frozen in photographic history • On the trains and ponies at Beverly Park • Carpools were arranged to take us to the game. Orange wedges halftime happy faces. • Sundays we would spend, every other weekend • Giddy kids with guilty fathers' New girlfriends. • They lied when they said that they would reopen • We cried and hoped and prayed from spring to fall. • But nothing stops that progress wheel from turning • And when we all returned they had replaced it with a big, brown, shopping mall. • Oh, I still get misty when the memories jog or maybe it's the smog. • The latchkey kingdom kids frozen in photographic history • On the trains and ponies at Beverly Park. (repeat) • Take me back to Beverly Park.

The Opposite of Suicide (5:06) I can't keep pretending my life's never ending. Must shake this conceit 'til I make my peace. • No more worry, no more trouble. (Is hope hopeless?) • No more pain and no more struggle • When I get a glimpse into oblivion. • Every day's a dear departure of torture as a work of art. • I'm starting to notice that I could just disappear. • Panic grips me in the shower. • Lapses of a lack of power. • And when the lake of luck dries up this desert grows rogue flowers. • Now I must, please beg my pardon • plant myself in someone's garden. • Starting to notice that I could just disappear • I'm starting to notice, starting to notice that • I could just disappear, I could just disappear, I could just disappear • I could just disappear, I could just disappear, I could just disappear, • I could just disappear, no one would miss me here • I could just disappear, disappear • Watch a muted television • Listen to the air condition. • Secret frequencies and dream sequences freak me out. • S'cuse me while I commit my Opposite of suicide. • I'm starting to notice. Starting, starting... • I could just disappear, I could just disappear, I could just disappear • I could just disappear, I could just disappear, I could just disappear • I could just disappear, no one would miss me here • I could just disappear, I could just disappear • The loss of my friends and the loss of my functions • my primal compulsion and cultural corruption, • The gravity of graphic equalization • That keeps me awake, shaking out of my station, • The itch is no match for the scratched, static signal • That broadcasts my forecast in intimate lingo. • I can't pinch the skin on my littlest finger • Without the persistent and desperate thoughts ringing • I'm stranded with brand names and tourist attractions • And unsatisfied with this vanishing action. • These serious theories and slight flights of fancy • Can’t power the phantom transistors of mercy. • I'm miserable and so powerless to resist it • Not invisible but had never existed. • It waits for me shrouded in shadows and whispers • I'm starting to notice. • Starting to notice that I could just disappear. •

City of Angles (5:06) You do cartwheels for the door girl. It's a cursed circus • As the world revolves around her like a useless universe. • The mother of all pearly gates has talent in ambivalence. • But you could get right into heaven if you were there before eleven. • You've been in the background so long, you’re a method extra. • Another crowd of faceless cowards fade into the architecture. • Living at a loss in this City of Angles • Waiting for the girl to free you from the curbside strangle • Living at a loss in this City of Angles • Point of view is pointless and past its prime. • It's a fine party line between parody and parity • When you count the calories burned in a moment of clarity • And there's a dangerous carrot dangling on a snowman's salary • Hearts of gold get melted down to gild the lilies of the valley. • Two roads diverged in Hollywood. Why'd you take the alley? • Trying to get across in this City of Angles • Wading in the shallow end, up to your ankles. • Trying to get across in this City of Angles • The Wild West is resting with mild exhaustion. • Ooh, living on the hip, young and edgy • Ooh, you couldn't make heads or tails of this place. • Ooh, flippin' coins on a corner; do you leave or do you last here? • Ooh, you'd better call it in the air. • No one gives a toss in this City of Angles • The lessons learned won't teach you more than the Murrieta gang will. No one gives a toss in this City of Angles. • You gotta jack the boss to get across. Living at a loss in this City of Angles. • You listen to The Big Pretend, while the jingles jangle. • Living at a loss in this City of Angles • And every single soul gets double-crossed.

Riddles and Rain (4:44) Some rainy day, Surprised L.A • One raindrop fell, all driving skill went to hell, they couldn't cell phone away • She had to stop, Looking for a breakfast spot • In West Hollywood the best she could get was Holloway's IHOP • And when the waitress brought the coffee • Pot she was so lost in thought • She just stared out of the window wondering what it would cost. • She said, "Show me the love • And I'll show you the pain. • I want to show you I've done everything". • How did the girl? • Who swore she'd go around the world • Deserve the scenery of Barney's Beanery and the sound of a grill? • And don't she feel so international • With her five kinds of syrup • She sees her pancake's happy face and she starts to tear up • And says, "Show me the love • And I'll show you the pain. • I want to show you I've done everything" • She stopped looking up • 'Cause it's all riddles and rain • "I want to show you I've done everything". • She stopped looking up, 'cause she figures she's stuck • Rolling her eyes under cloudy skies • But she won't find the warmth in the thick of the storm And when her puddles have accumulated • Troubles are like riddles she'll resolve. • She chased the rain, to the unknown • And maybe when she runs out of rain, she’ll just keep going • "Show me the love • And I'll show you the pain. • I want to show you I've done everything" • She stopped looking up • 'Cause it's all riddles and rain • "I want to show you I've done everything".

The Man (4:30) You're gonna miss the sunshine. Don't you dare miss the sunshine. • You're gonna miss the sunshine. Don't you dare miss the sunshine. • The air was thicker than the flesh of an alligator pear • And if you knew better you'd have bet this was a bout of earthquake weather • Been reading Raymond Chandler and I've been listening to the Firesign Theatre • Hiding like a private icon in my bed under covers. • Do you dare, living life without a care? • Wish I was deep, as you must think I think I am. • Do you dare, living life without a care? • I can sleep all day because I am the man. • You're gonna miss the sunshine. Don't you dare miss the sunshine. • You're gonna miss the sunshine. Don't you dare miss the sunshine. • Don't you miss it. • While I'm gnawing on the drawstring of my Tijuana poncho. • I realize no pride or privilege is giving me head honcho. • And when I've had enough of all this sunshine stuff I'll ditch my car and make my pilgrimage down Wilshire Boulevard • And climb in to the tar pits like the Smilodon • And go down smiling, knowing even gone, I'll always be a part. • Do you dare, living life without a care? • I don't mind but then it really all depends. • Do you dare living life without a care? I am just The Man from The Big Pretend. • A million single people in a million single cars all parked at rush hour. • No time to let the orange ripen rip it off the vine and eat it sour. • Alone on a stone in the middle of a solar system • The kids of The Big Pretend are here. Air kiss them. • Do you dare, living life without a care? • I don't mind because I am the man. • Do you dare, living life without a care? • I don't mind because I am the man. • Alone on a stone in the middle of a solar system • Alone on a stone in the middle of a solar system. • You're gonna miss the sunshine. You're gonna miss the sunshine.

The Big Pretend Reprise (1:50) • And now I find myself within a yawn and I'm convinced it's a joyful containment • I've outgrown all my boyish charm but have not found a thing to replace it. • There's an anger in hunger's wake and I mean to taste it. • The Big Pretend • Where you're born into the warmth of exclusion • The Big Pretend • Where your mortal fear is a boring conclusion • The Big Pretend • Where you pour your poor heart into a project of self-dissolution • Here, in The Big Pretend • We're, in The Big Pretend • Here, in The Big Pretend.

All Day Sucker

Self Titled

Get High

Get yourself right out of that chair.

This is your invitation.

I know sedation's nice and warm

Life is just a rain drop but it's got potential

to become torrential.

Let's seed the clouds and put on a storm.

You could always get high if you wanna.

Madame Estelle was a fine fortune teller,

telling fine fortunes before

but she ain't so mystical since she smoked her crystal ball.

She sells her cliches down by the seashore.

You could always get high.

You could always get high if you wanna.

You could always get high

but take a look around and see what it's got you.

I got so high that I thought I could fly from my life

and I looked down on my strife just like ants from the brink.

But I got scared when I got too aware of my own insignificance-

Makes you think, don't it?

You could always get high.

You could always get high if you wanna.

You could always get high

but take a look around and see what it's got you.

Everybody knows nobody knows

and the sinking feeling's really getting to you.

Everybody rise and everybody falls.

But you can't get high enough to front it all.

Nothing's that easy.

Everybody gets high.

Everybody gets high when they wanna.

You could always get high

but take a look around and see what it's got you.

You could always get high.

You could always get high if you wanna.

You could always get high

but take a look around and see what it's got you.

Blue (Hours At Canters’)

Ringing in my ears, I can’t answer to.

Stinging from my tears, when I think of you.

And all your fears confirmed, Well how can I be true

I hate the blue.

I Drag a fag in deep this punishment I bear.

Acrid melodies arpeggiate and disappear

Like all our rolled up notes and I don’t even smoke.

Blue, what is happening to my everything?

Blue, what does this color scheme to do?

Blue, I don’t know where to stay, I don’t know what to say to you.

I hate the Blue

Praying for resolve, I’d like to tunnel to.

Let this night dissolve and make the morning light break through.

So I may return home, Mama take my monochrome.

I hate the Blue

But how can I go home when I know you are there?

How can I kill time when time aint fighting fair?

Blue, what is happening to my everything?

Blue, what does this color scheme to do?

Blue, I don’t know where to stay, I don’t know what to say to you.

I can’t stand the Blue.

Wringing out my hands reflecting in my tea

This ripples I can’t stand.

What you don’t know is killing me.

What’s a boy to do when I can’t bare the shame?

I blame the Blue

All things ring true.

Rub It In

I gave up drinking, I gave up smoking.

I gave up thinking all the time-stone cold revoking.

The reason to my rhyme, I wasn't joking.

If there's a phoney bone in me, I want it broken.

If you don't know what to say or where to begin,

turn your high light on, turn it up, tune me out

and rub it in.Rub it in.Rub it in. Rub it in.

Gonna strip away the past,reveal the present,

the famine for the fast,savor the independance.

Feel free of flavors of the month. Feast on attendance.

This gift I'm gonna give myself will be my presence.

If you don't know what to say or where to begin,

turn your high light on, turn it up, tune me out

and rub it in.Rub it in.Rub it in. Rub it in.

I've had my phase in the clouds.

I was a head of my time.

I was a blur in the hand 'til I unmade my mind.

And if you endow me with sanctuary's anchor

I'd be so grateful that I'd get down and thank you.

Now that you know what to say and where to begin.

You've had the time to separate the sick from the sin.

All you've gotta do is turn it up, tune me out

and rub it in.Rub it in.Rub it in. Rub it in.

I don't need down time, fair or forewarding.

The lies are in the light now,lay 'em on me.

Adults in babe issues, just let 'em bronze.

I'm making sure you know I know

you're above and beyond me.

Gonna be a lot of explaining to do.

There's gonna be a lot of explaining to do.

Worst Case Scenario

I saw her across an overcrowded after-hours warehouse.

She seemed to bring the dance floor to a standstill.

Her accelerated lifestyle seemed to celebrate my wind-down.

She waved a glow stick in her hand, but all I saw was landfill.

I was caught between the new-wave and the ravers.

Best, better, good, bad, your worst-case scenario.

My best, better, good, bad, to worst-case scenario.

I took her to Canter’s for a coffee cause her buzz was wearin’ off.

She sat there starin’ at the ceiling and I got this awful feelin’ I was failin’ as I tried to relate.

And as I waved the waitress down she put her gum on my plate, she said,

“You seem really nice, but you refuse to evolve. I bet you’re still listenin’ to ‘Rumors’, ‘Glass Houses’, and ‘Revolver’.

This is the ode to Camila Rose, first on our block to wear florescent clothes.

I don’t know why I’m wasting my time singin’ ‘bout Camila Rose.

Camila Rose.

My best friend since we were three,

We communicate through ESP. We tried L.S.D.

The trip wasn’t bad ‘til she told her mom and then her mom told my dad

Camila Rose

Oh my god, you guys, you know what? What? Oh my god, you guys, you know what? What? Oh my god you guys, you know you had to be there. You had to be there.

While waiting in line to see ‘Hard to Hold’, she confessed to me that she was ‘Jesse’s Girl’. Obsessed with GH’s Noah Drake’s episodes ‘til commercial breaks I’d wait for Camila Rose.

Oh my god, you guys, you know what? What? Oh my god, you guys, you know what? What? ? Oh my god you guys, you know you had to be there.

Parked on Mullholland drive, playing Working Class Dog.

San Fernando Valley grid twinkling through the smog.

We went all the way, we didn’t stop.

“Til that rent-a-cop caught our window fog.

It got weird then we got grown

Suppose we both got lives that were our own

But that’s how it goes

Guess everyone knows someone like Camila Rose.

Camila Rose

I always knew that you were out of your mind, but now you know that you never left mine.

Oh my god you guys, you know what? What? ? Oh my god you guys, you know what? What? Oh my god you guys, you know you had to be there. You had to be there. Oh my god you guys, you know what? What? ? Oh my god you guys, you know what? What? Oh my god you guys, you know you had to be there. You had to be there.

Loving Room

You’ve got your things and I’ve got mine.

We’ve got something so exciting to find.

If it’s basically built for…

My old records,

My shoe tree garden,

Here together in one apartment.

Who knows what’s in store?

Do we force this or let it go?

I’ve been wondering for sure if it’s basically built for…

Two to love. Loving room. We need room to prove that it’s basically built for…

Two to love. In this loving room. We need room to prove that it’s basically built for…

You and I sent from here and there, to have a home that we both share.

Don’t be scared, I won’t be scared.

Cause it’s basically built for…

My cold feet and your woman’s touch,

I’m just worried it ain’t enough.

I don’t know what’s in store.

Do we force this or let it go.

I’ve been wondering for sure if it’s basically built for…

Two to love. Loving room. We need room to prove that it’s basically built for…

Two to love. Loving room. Room to prove that it’s basically built for…

Two who’ve got so much love between them,

We’re gonna find out soon.

Together we’ll weather the space and time in our loving room.

You’ve got my love.

And you’ve got mine.

And together, we’ll be just fine.

Oh, I know.

Yes, you know.

You’re not sure.

Oh, I ain’t never gonna let you go.

Cause we’re gonna make sure that it’s ba-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a

Two to love. Loving room. (we need)Room to prove that it’s basically built for…

Two to love. In this loving room. (ya know you need) We need room to prove that it’s basically built for…

Two to love. Ya know we’re livin’ in a loving room. We got to get a little room to prove that it’s basically built for…

Accident Prone

Someone’s picking up the broken pieces.

Someone hides a black eye with her hair.

Someone’s old excuses are beginning to confuse her.

Someone isn’t sure as she is there.

Someone sees her whole life out the window

Someone see his whole life on a shelf.

If I don’t leave the light on for him.

Maybe he won’t come on home again.

She pretends to live alone,

Tells her friend she’s accident prone.

And she feels so incidental

Thinking everything goes wrong

But it’s not coincidental that he keeps coming home

Cause someone, someone, someone leaves the light on for him.

Someone can’t stop polishing his trophies.

Someone’s gonna atrophy herself

Someone writes a letter that could never say it better

Either place to leave it or herself

I’m never gonna go to that place again.

I won’t be there

Cause I know what will be waiting

I won’t be there

She pretends to live alone,

Tells her friend she’s accident prone.

And she feels so incidental

Thinking everything goes wrong

But it’s not coincidental that he keeps coming home

Cause someone, someone, someone leaves the light on for him.

The light on, the light on, someone leaves the light on.

The light on, the light on, someone leaves the light on.

Someone comes into a darkened doorway.

Someone’s voice echoes through an empty home.

Someone reads the letter that could never say it better.

Someone’s life is suddenly her own.

Foundation

Here’s a girl with no feelings at all (yeah).

Who’s tired of watching the cracks on the wall (yeah).

She’s gettin’ out or the ceiling will fall for good.

With the father she never knew best

And the mother that’s always depressed.

Her brother’s such a pest and her step dad molests her, you know the rest.

Down, down, down she’s gotta break it.

Down, down to the foundation.

Sometimes to get it off the ground, you’ve gotta break it down.

Growing up in a bad element,

It’s like crying into a bag of cement.

She’s getting out or she’s gonna harden for good.

She left a letter that sent them her best,

Passed her high school proficiency test,

Drove past first day of second semester and screamed to her friends she would send her new address.

Down, down, down she’s gotta break it.

Down, down to the foundation.

Sometimes to get it off the ground, you’ve gotta break it down to the foundation.

Her arm floats on the wind like a wing.

Her hand cuts the sky like she’s waving goodbye.

The hold world starts to rumble, the ground’s crumbling

The radio sings and can do anything.

Here’s a girl with no regrets at all (yeah).

Didn’t know she could tear down the wall (yeah).

But she showed (that) when her life came to call, she could.

Then one day in the mirror she found.

The foundation she could build around.

She sees a scared little girl in her eyes, says, “I might shake but I ain’t goin’

Down, down, down she’s gotta break it.

Down, down to the foundation.

Sometimes to get it off the ground, you’ve gotta break it down to the foundation.